Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20

District Clerk Holmes is in Kansas
City this week.
G.. w. Vickers went west to-day tc
Comanche county.
We now have some choice hams and
breakfast bacon. w. NJ. Wheeler. Al
The count house and all the furniture
and fixtures therein has been paid for.
The Baptists of this city have had
several interesting meetings during the
past week.
Early seed potatoes-a carload lot
received this week by Standiford, You
mans & Eldred. Al
Everybody read the real estate trans
fers and then say why Medicine Lodge
is not selling more property.
The weather is clear and pleasant
this, Wednesday morning, and the
rainy spell is over for while.
a. A. Adair, lately of Indiana, has
purchased half interest in the gro
Gerry store and confectionery of Shaw
Bros.
Our Grocery Department is now re-
plete with Staple and Fancy Goods of
all kinds at the lowest prices. WIN.
Wheeler. AZ
j. r. Young, of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, has
moved to this city and rented a house
in the north end. His family will be
here in May.
We do not believe that the organiza-
ton of a Baptist church in this city had
anything to do with the recent rains.
Such report is prevalent.
Judge Hardy issued a marriage Ii
cense on the 18th, to Jas. c. William
son, aged % and Eva NJ. Sechrest,
aged IA, all of this county.
Hill & Aber have machine now for
printing maps of any size and in any
quantity, on short notice. They are
doing some excellent work.
Rev. Willis will not preach at the
Presbyterian church tonight, he hav-
ing been compelled to go home, on
account of sickness. He was threaten
ed with pneumonia.
The rumor is that work on the South
ern Kansas extension from this place
west, will be discontinued, for the pres
emit, and that the contractors will go to
the Spivey branch.
The Field meat shop is now supplied
with an ice chest that will hold ton
of ice, three whole beeves and any
amount of small truck. 1t was built 10y
G. T. Freeman and his men.
Just opened at W. NJ. Wheeler's,
Scriven's Patent Elastic Scanned Draw
er. The best Gents Drawer made.
Call and see them. a full line Of Gents
fancy and plain handkerchiefs, suspen-
ders and Furnishings. Our prices in
this department the lowest. AZ
Mr.. John Calene, late of Abilene, one
of the firm that bought the Hayden Il
Lyle store. arrived last week, and is
now in charge. He has had an extend
ed experience in the mercantile bust
ness, and we predict that he will prove
to be popular citizen.
Lung Chow, the handsome, genial
and obliging book-keeper of that prince
of good laundryman, Wing Yeun, who
is adding so much to the general ap-
pearance OF our incest and most oblig-
ing young men by keeping their linen
as immaculate as the new fallen and
beautiful snow, and who had been to
visit their old friend and school-mate
Wing Hing Lee, of the thriving city of
Wichita, returned last Saturday and
was met with open arms by his many
friends and admirers in this city.
The Sun City Union says that Hawk
ins & Purdy have opened a first-class
restaurant there; that the worst lot of
roads in the county are around Medi-
cine Lodge; that the boom in Sun City
Is growing larger; that the farmers are
rejoicing oyer the rain; that Sam. Hol-
loway's residence will Ibe one of the
neatest in that town; that there will
soon be plenty of brick there that they
have an abundance of good ice there
that the Odd Fellows will celebrate the
69th anniversary of the order on the
18th; that the cornet band is making
rapid progress.
Stock owners will be interested in the
following, which passed at the recent
session of the Kansas legislature: 1.-The
owner of any stallion, bull or jack shall
have lien on the offspring of his stall
lion, bull or jack for the full value of
the services of said stallion, bull or
jack in the get of said offspring, for a
period of one year after the foal or
birth of said offspring; provided, that
at or before the time of foal or birth Of
said offspring, the owner of the stall
lion, bull or jack shall file in the Office
of the register of deeds of the county
where the dam of SAID offspring is, with
description of the dam ON whose off
spring he claims a lien. Such a lien
shall be enforced as other liens upon
personal property under chapter 142 of
the sessions laws of 1872 are enforced. -
Attorneys Ellis, Overstreet and Den
ton went up into the Elm Mills country
on fishing and hunting excursion this
week and came near meeting with a
serious accident. In lighting cigar,
one of the party dropped a match in
the high, dry grass, setting it on fire.
The party were so busy swapping lies
that they did not notice that they were
surrounded by the leaping, sizzling de-
mon which was even then darting out
its hldeous, forked tongue into the afr
righted faces of its intended victims,
rendering them blind by its glare and
nearly suffocating them with the blasts
of smoke that ever and anon it snorted
through its nostrils But for the time